Data Validation Contracts in England

Data Validation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Data Validation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Validation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 389 491 570
Rank change year-on-year +102 +79 +75
Contract jobs citing Data Validation 96 51 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.39% 0.14% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.16% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 29 65
10th Percentile £314 £306 £328
25th Percentile £367 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -13.64% +11.39%
75th Percentile £523 £549 £736
90th Percentile £630 £638 £1,082
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £27.98 - £27.05
25th Percentile £32.07 - £30.88
Median hourly rate £41.06 £10.42 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +294.07% -72.21% +16.90%
75th Percentile £50.37 £35.96 £43.88
90th Percentile £54.65 £51.28 £47.55
UK median hourly rate £41.06 £10.42 £37.50
% change year-on-year +294.07% -72.21% +16.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Data Validation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Data Validation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Data Validation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Validation in England

Data Validation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Validation in England.

Daily rate trend for Data Validation in England

Data Validation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Validation in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Validation in England

Data Validation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Validation in England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Validation in England

Data Validation
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Validation in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Validation in England

Data Validation
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Validation within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +64 53 £488 -2.50% 56
South East +53 13 £475 +80.95% 28
North of England +21 12 £400 -16.67% 11
North West +19 8 £320 -19.50% 5
East of England +35 6 £400 - 7
Midlands +25 6 £450 +12.50% 9
East Midlands +12 4 £450 +11.11% 2
Yorkshire +11 4 £400 - 5
South West +44 2 £800 +81.30% 6
West Midlands +15 2 - - 5
Data Validation
UK

Data Validation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (6.25%) Confluence
2 2 (2.08%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.04%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.04%) CICS
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.04%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 9 (9.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.04%) Adobe Captivate
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (5.21%) Workday HCM
2 3 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (3.13%) SAP MDG
2 3 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (2.08%) Actimize
3 2 (2.08%) Magento
3 2 (2.08%) Oracle Retail
3 2 (2.08%) SAP CX
3 2 (2.08%) Shopify
4 1 (1.04%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (1.04%) Murex MxG2000
4 1 (1.04%) NEC Housing
4 1 (1.04%) Orchard Housing
4 1 (1.04%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (1.04%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (1.04%) SAP Business ByDesign
Cloud Services
1 14 (14.58%) Azure
2 9 (9.38%) Power Platform
3 8 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 8 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 6 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (6.25%) GCP
5 5 (5.21%) AWS
6 4 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (4.17%) Miro
7 3 (3.13%) Fivetran
7 3 (3.13%) SaaS
7 3 (3.13%) Snowflake
7 3 (3.13%) WhatsApp
8 2 (2.08%) Boomi
8 2 (2.08%) BrowserStack
8 2 (2.08%) GitHub
8 2 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.08%) Oracle CX
8 2 (2.08%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 1 (1.04%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.04%) Internet
1 1 (1.04%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.42%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (9.38%) Power BI
3 7 (7.29%) SQL Server
4 6 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (5.21%) Metadata
6 4 (4.17%) Oracle Database
6 4 (4.17%) Tableau
7 3 (3.13%) Data Lake
7 3 (3.13%) Delta Lake
7 3 (3.13%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (3.13%) SAP Data Services
8 2 (2.08%) DataStage
8 2 (2.08%) InfluxDB
8 2 (2.08%) InterSystems Cache
8 2 (2.08%) MongoDB
9 1 (1.04%) Big Data
9 1 (1.04%) Data Mart
9 1 (1.04%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (12.50%) Selenium
2 10 (10.42%) JIRA
3 9 (9.38%) JMeter
3 9 (9.38%) Postman
4 5 (5.21%) Git
5 4 (4.17%) DBeaver
5 4 (4.17%) GitLab
5 4 (4.17%) LoadRunner
5 4 (4.17%) SoapUI
6 3 (3.13%) Cucumber
6 3 (3.13%) Cypress.io
6 3 (3.13%) SpecFlow
7 2 (2.08%) Jenkins
7 2 (2.08%) REST Assured
7 2 (2.08%) Zephyr
8 1 (1.04%) Appium
8 1 (1.04%) Locust
8 1 (1.04%) Robot Framework
General
1 32 (33.33%) Finance
2 28 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
2 28 (29.17%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.25%) Banking
3 6 (6.25%) Public Sector
3 6 (6.25%) Retail
4 5 (5.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.17%) Aviation
5 4 (4.17%) Marketing
6 3 (3.13%) Front Office
7 2 (2.08%) Electronics
7 2 (2.08%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.08%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.08%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.04%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.04%) Local Government
8 1 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.04%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (28.13%) Analyst
2 15 (15.63%) Data Analyst
3 14 (14.58%) Data Engineer
4 12 (12.50%) Consultant
5 11 (11.46%) Lead
6 10 (10.42%) Tester
7 8 (8.33%) Senior
8 5 (5.21%) Business Analyst
8 5 (5.21%) QA Engineer
8 5 (5.21%) Senior Data Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) Automation Tester
9 4 (4.17%) DBA
9 4 (4.17%) Software Tester
9 4 (4.17%) Test Automation Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) Test Consultant
9 4 (4.17%) Test Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) Workday Consultant
10 3 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
10 3 (3.13%) PostgreSQL DBA
10 3 (3.13%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.21%) Kafka
1 5 (5.21%) Web Services
2 3 (3.13%) Gherkin
2 3 (3.13%) PySpark
2 3 (3.13%) REST
3 2 (2.08%) EDI
3 2 (2.08%) Middleware
3 2 (2.08%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (2.08%) Pandas
3 2 (2.08%) Playwright
3 2 (2.08%) pytest
3 2 (2.08%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (2.08%) SAP PI
3 2 (2.08%) SOAP
4 1 (1.04%) .NET
4 1 (1.04%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.04%) ODBC
4 1 (1.04%) Polars
4 1 (1.04%) RESTful
4 1 (1.04%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (9.38%) Data Structures
3 5 (5.21%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.13%) NHS
4 3 (3.13%) Replication
5 2 (2.08%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.08%) Equities
5 2 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.08%) IoT
5 2 (2.08%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.04%) Derivative
6 1 (1.04%) EPoS
6 1 (1.04%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.04%) Learning Management System
6 1 (1.04%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.04%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.04%) PDA
6 1 (1.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.13%) Linux
2 2 (2.08%) Unix
2 2 (2.08%) Windows
3 1 (1.04%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (100.00%) Validation
2 43 (44.79%) Migration
3 31 (32.29%) Data Migration
4 24 (25.00%) ETL
5 23 (23.96%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (23.96%) Test Automation
6 20 (20.83%) CI/CD
7 19 (19.79%) DevOps
8 18 (18.75%) Analytics
9 17 (17.71%) Data Cleansing
10 16 (16.67%) Agile
10 16 (16.67%) Data Governance
11 15 (15.63%) Business Intelligence
11 15 (15.63%) Data Analysis
11 15 (15.63%) Test Strategy
11 15 (15.63%) User Acceptance Testing
12 14 (14.58%) Data Management
13 12 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
14 11 (11.46%) End-to-End Testing
15 10 (10.42%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 43 (44.79%) SQL
2 14 (14.58%) Python
3 5 (5.21%) Java
4 2 (2.08%) C#
4 2 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (2.08%) Go
4 2 (2.08%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.08%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.04%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.04%) Bash
5 1 (1.04%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.04%) JCL
5 1 (1.04%) Scala
5 1 (1.04%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.04%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.04%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (9.38%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.29%) Degree
2 7 (7.29%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.21%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.08%) CBAP
5 1 (1.04%) ACCA
5 1 (1.04%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.04%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.04%) CIMA
5 1 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.04%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (26.04%) Data Quality
2 23 (23.96%) QA
3 3 (3.13%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.08%) GDPR
4 2 (2.08%) MiFID
5 1 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.04%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (2.08%) Docker
2 1 (1.04%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 2 (2.08%) Grafana
1 2 (2.08%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.08%) Terraform
2 1 (1.04%) CA Endevor
2 1 (1.04%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (17.71%) Microsoft
1 17 (17.71%) Oracle
2 14 (14.58%) SAP
3 10 (10.42%) Workday
4 7 (7.29%) Databricks
5 6 (6.25%) Salesforce
6 5 (5.21%) Google
7 4 (4.17%) Informatica
8 3 (3.13%) Adobe
8 3 (3.13%) DocuSign
8 3 (3.13%) ServiceNow
9 2 (2.08%) Autodesk
9 2 (2.08%) Dell
9 2 (2.08%) MuleSoft
9 2 (2.08%) NCR
9 2 (2.08%) Nintex
9 2 (2.08%) VeriFone
10 1 (1.04%) IBM
10 1 (1.04%) Murex
10 1 (1.04%) Orchard